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LIBER Conference, Tartu, June 2012 Meinhard Kettler, Swets . New Workflows in Research and Collaboration and the Role of the Library. Introducing the Mendeley Institutional Edition. Topics. Social Networks and Collaboration in Research Mendeley: The Platform and the Company
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LIBER Conference, Tartu, June 2012 Meinhard Kettler, Swets New Workflows in Research and Collaboration and the Role of the Library. Introducing the Mendeley Institutional Edition
Topics Social Networks and Collaboration in Research Mendeley: The Platform and the Company Mendeley Institutional Edition
2 Trends merge into 1 Adoption of Social networks on the web Social Research Collaboration Platform Increasing need of collaboration in research
Research Collaboration – Statements & Facts Research performance and productivity are key drivers of countries’ and companies’ competitiveness Less than 26% of papers are the product of one institution alone Collaborating faculties/researchers have higher publication output by 38% Research collaboration intensity is a strong driver for achieving higher levels of research quality International research collaboration has a positive impact on the number of citation of the published article Important enablers for research collaborations are web tools and the significant decrease in communication cost.
Social Media – Benefit for Researchers Perceived benefit of social media use in research Mean agreement scores, where 1=strongly disagree, 5=strongly agree CIBER, University College London Emerald Group Publishing Ltd 14 December 2010
Research Workflow • Researchers are already using a number of social tools to support every phase of the research lifecycle. • Social networks have an impact on the scholarly workflow Many platforms and tools try to support researcher’s workflow Social Media Tools
Where is the library in the new workflow of research? Main focus of libraries: Discoverability of content Availability of content Reference manager Library
Platforms for Researchers Focus is on researchers as users No library integration? Bullinger, Hallerstede, Renken, Soeldner & Moesle in Towards Research Collaboration – a Taxonomy of SRNS
What is Mendeley? Mendeley extracts data and fulltext from PDFs, .. ..share and discuss their research in groups, .. ..lets researchers organize and annotate papers, ..
Discover People Search for individuals Invite others by entering email addresses Search for contacts from an email account Select people from Mendeley’s suggestions
Discover Groups Create groups Search for groups Browse per discipline View popular groups
Discover Papers Search by Author, Title, Keywords, DOI etc. Browse by discipline Save documents and references to you library Find relevant content by recommendations
My Library Manage you library & groups online or in the desktop version
Work on papers Annotate, highlight, copy text into notes Insert citations & automatically create bibliographies
A global research network with 1.7 million users, growing at 130,000 per month: University of Cambridge Stanford University MIT University of Michigan Imperial College London University of Oxford University College London Harvard University University of Washington Cornell University Columbia University University of Edinburgh UC Berkeley Sao Paulo University University of Toronto
A crowdsourced research database with 250 million user-uploaded documents: Documents + unique user-generated information
Analytics – Usage section The “Reading” Section gives real time insights in what content is being used by your members • There are 3 report areas: • Number of articles added to members’ library • Ranking of journals matched against library holding • Ranking of most read articles
MIE – Analytics –“Publishing” section The “Publishing” Section gives real time information on your researcher’s publication performance • There are 3 report areas: • Number of articles published • In which journal they published • Ranking of your publishing researchers
Analytics –“Impact” section The “Impact” Section gives real time information on the reach of your researcher’s publication • There are 3 report areas: • Number of “readers” of your researcher’s publications • Ranking of highly read publications • Ranking of your researchers with the largest readership
Settings –“Holdings” section Manage group description & member, upload holding list & link resolver
Mendeley & MIE - Overview Mendeley is a next generation work flow tool and social discovery engine built for the individual researcher to enhance productivity and facilitate collaboration TheMendeley Institutional Edition provides librarians witha window into and a platform for supporting the research within their communities
Thank you! Meinhard Kettler mkettler@de.swets.com